AMES, Iowa -- Members of the Iowa State community are invited
to attend one of two public forums scheduled next week to
learn more about a parking survey and report completed
earlier this month.

Rick Rich and Dave Barr, the consultants from Rich and
Associates, Southfield, Mich., who completed the report, will
be on campus Thursday, March 21, and Friday, March 22, to
present their study and field questions about their
methodology, options available to Iowa State and their
recommendations. ISU representatives also will be on hand to
help answer questions.

Thursday's forum will begin at 7 p.m. in room 1414 of the
Molecular Biology building. Friday's forum will begin at noon
in the auditorium (room 127) of Curtiss Hall.

The Rich report reviewed the following options: make no
changes, construct additional surface lots, build a parking
ramp and improve shuttle service from lots at the Iowa State
Center to free space on campus for short-term parking for
students and visitors. ISU officials have made no decisions
about what direction they will take to ease the parking
shortage on campus. The forums are one way officials will
solicit input from the campus community.